Danny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I will raise another issue. We have an awful lot of national primary and secondary roads in our county. Young fellows who want to build would get planning permission with no bother, except there are restrictions from the National Roads Authority and Transport Infrastructure Ireland, even with existing entrances or exits or whatever we want to call them. If you are coming out it is an exit and if you are going in it is an entrance. Even if an existing exit will be used, permission is still denied. These are farmers' sons, invariably, and just because the road they are on coming out is not in the charge of the local authority they are denied the right to build a house. That has been happening in Kerry since 2012. There are people who would build their own houses on their land but are denied the right to do that. If they go to another location they will be denied the right to build because they are not long enough there under the residency rule. I am asking for that to be looked at as well.